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2023.06 No One Cares About a Team’s Agility

I’m surprising myself with this experiment and the fact that I am continuing it. I suspect I’m successful because it’s just a minute of some in-progress writing.   Transcript: I’m Johanna Rothman, and this is 60 Seconds of Johanna’s WIP for November 9, 2023, where I read an excerpt of just a minute of some

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2023.02 Characteristics of an Agile Team

My weekly 60 seconds of WIP: This one is also from the project lifecycles book. The Transcript: I’m Johanna Rothman, and this is 60 Seconds of WIP for October 5, 2023, where I read an excerpt that I hope is just a minute of some book in progress. This excerpt is from the currently-named Project

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2023.01 Pushing Agile Ideas Into Waterfall Thinking

I’m experimenting with audio and video. So I started a podcast called, “60 Seconds of Johanna’s WIP.” Listen here: If you want to listen through your podcast app, go to 60 Seconds of Johanna’s WIP September 29, 2023. I will also add those videos to my YouTube channel. The plan—and I use that term quite

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Leadership Tip #11: Substitute the Word Trust for Empower

We talk a lot about empowered or self-organizing teams in the agile community. However, I don’t see too many self-organizing or empowered teams at my clients. Not because my clients are stupid—far from it. Everyone does the best job they know how to do. However, every manager’s micromanagement pervades all levels. Instead of talking about

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Why Shared Services “Teams” Don’t Work with Agility

One of my clients wants to use shared services “teams” as they start their agile transformation. Their developers work on a product for months and years at a time. However, the testers and UI people are part of pools of people. The organization calls these testers and UI people, “shared services.” Shared service-thinking denies the

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Want a Successful Agile Project? Start with Why Before How

I’ve been speaking with several possible clients. They’re having trouble with Scrum. The managers don’t believe the teams need product owners, so the teams don’t have POs. The managers think a Scrum Master can support at least four teams. The teams start a lot and finish very little. The teams think they have too many

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